American Girl’s World by Us line features 18-inch dolls and books for characters Makena, Evette, and Maritza. (Photo credit: Business Wire via AP) ...

The book — “A Smart Girl’s Guide: Body Image Book” — is aimed at girls age 10 and up, and acknowledges the existence of transgender and non-binary identities.

An American Girl doll book about body image is facing unprecedented backlash from anti-LGBTQ reviewers over two pages on gender expression. "As far as we are aware, no other American Girl book has ...

That question, posed by a 5-year-old African-American girl in 1965, begins Nancy Larrick’s famous “The All-White World of Children’s Books.” In it, she documents the lily-white landscape ...

Emily: American Girl’s fifth Historical Character and first non-white doll was born into slavery, a move with a complicated history that culture writer Aisha Harris explained in a 2016 Slate ...

American Girl's new book "A Smart Girl's Guide: Race & Inclusion" is a clearly written, positive set of suggestions for girls 10 and older about breaking through bubbles of implicit bias and ...

She was in a hurry, scanning book covers, but couldn’t find any that reflected who her niece, an African American girl, is. The attorney, who’s an avid reader, went online instead and found a ...

Rowland with original American Girl dolls: Kirsten, Samantha and Molly. The line later expanded in the 1990s with Felicity Merriman of Colonial Williamsburg and its first non-white dolls: Addy ...

In early December 2022, a book in an American Girl company-branded series of self-help guides — "Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image" — drew the ire of anti-trans activists. Published in February ...

Inspired by their podcast of the same name, historians Mary Mahoney and Allison Horrocks tackle these questions and more in their book Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl (2023 ...

How the American Girl ‘Care and Keeping’ Books Revolutionized Health for Tweens and Teens. ... And the cast of characters in the early versions of the book was nearly all white.